Professor of History
19th-Century American South and the North-South Sectional Conflict
Yale University (PhD, 1968)
Phone: 609-771-2216
Email: crofts@tcnj.edu
Office: Social Sciences 236
Website: danielwcrofts.com
Dan Crofts has taught in the History Department since 1975. His research focuses on the Old South, and the North-South Sectional Conflict that led to Civil War. He teaches a variety of courses on American and World History.
Publications
- A Secession Crisis Enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and “The Diary of a Public Man” (Louisiana State University Press, April 2010)
- Upstream Odyssey: An American in China, 1895-1944 (EastBridge, 2008)
- Cobb’s Ordeal: The Diaries of a Virginia Farmer, 1842-1872 (University of Georgia Press, 1997)
- (edited, with new introduction) David M. Potter, Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis (Louisiana State University Press, 1995)
- Old Southampton: Politics and Society in a Virginia County, 1834-1869 (University Press of Virginia, 1992)
- Reluctant Confederates: Upper South Unionists in the Secession Crisis (University of North Carolina Press, 1989)